Haydee Duarte

“Love isn’t really about what we think of the other person, but how we feel about ourselves when we are with that person.”
― Jeanne MacKin, The Beautiful American

“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

“But sometimes you want things just because you think you're supposed to. And sometimes it's the things you never even knew you wanted that give your life the most meaning.”
― Amy Thomas, Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light

“We both believe in beauty and elegance. In strong women who know their own minds. No one will look good in her clothes if she doesn't walk as if she owns the world. Remember that, Lily. It's ours, all the beauty we want, if we want it hard enough.”
― Jeanne Mackin, The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel